Track for door-hangers.



No. 709,020. Patented Sept. i6, I902. P. A. mans.

TRACK FOR DOOR HANGERS.

(Application fllad luv. 9, 1901.) ("0 Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP A. MYERS, or ASI-ILAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR To F. E. MYERS AND BRo, OF ASHLAND, OHIO, A FIRM.

TRACK FOR DOOR-HANGERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,029, dated September 16, 1909.

A Application filed November 9, 1901. Serial No. 81,774. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, Ashland county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tracks for Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a track for doorhangers, and is designed to simplify and [O cheapen the construction and at the same time provide a track which may be used reversely. I have also aimed to. utilize the track to retain the door-hanger in place and prevent the roller from leaving the track, as I5 so frequently occurs and which is a very objectionable feature in the use of door-hangers. In carrying out my invention I make the track of a bar of metal of suitable width and thickness and provide supporting-brackets at intervals made up of independent angle-irons arranged side by side with their outer ends adapted for attachment to the wall of the barn or other building,while their inner ends, which are in contact, pass through centrallyarranged openings in the track-bar and are there upset or turned over to make a rivet.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the track in perspective. Fig. 2 is a 7 section through the supporting-bracket. Fig. e 3 shows the brackets detached. Fig. 4 shows a modification of the bracket. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the pulley in place on the track.

In the drawings, A represents the track, 3 5 which is made of a plain bar of metal of suitable width and thickness, and in order to make the track capable of being reversed I locate the supporting-brackets B centrally thereof. They are made up of angle-irons o placed in contact or back to back and with their opposite ends in opposite directions and in the same plane, as shown at a, these ends being provided with perforations b and forming a means of attachment to the barn or other building. The parts that are in contact preferably have their extreme ends reduced in width, and they are then passed through a centrally-arranged opening 0 in the bar, these reduced ends being of such length as to be upset or riveted, thus forming a most secure attachment without other fastening means. As shown in Fig. 4, I may, to avoid any possibility of detachment, rivet the adjacent portion of the angle-irons together, as shown at d. By arranging the brackets cen- 5 5 trally on the track and by the use of angleplates of flat metal I have a minimum thickness of metal in the center of'the track, and this leaves such a width of the track on each side as to form a flange over which the wheel of the pulley may depend, and thus prevent its detachment. I have shown such a pulley, with its frame, in the drawings, and it will be seen that the projection e coacts with the flange f of the pulley to prevent the derailment of the pulley.

I claim- 1. A track for door-hangers and the like, comprising a plain metal bar and supportingbrackets, said brackets each comprising two members having adjoining ends passing through openings in the track and secured therein, substantially as described.

, 2. A track for door-hangers and the like comprising a plain metal bar, supporting- PHILIP A. MYERS.

Witnesses:

JAMES Hess, CHARLES J. HELM. 

